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The word 'mentality'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mentalityOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.796
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mentality in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
arry Robson like - nae right mentality. But, 7 mins? Goldson arm bal (2022) twitter link
@stonefish100 Mentality aye, savvy definitely lacking (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Yince yae develop a gamblers mentality anyhing seems like a bet in t on page 37

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
pynt aboot the "thaim an us" mentality. Awbody's got a accent but me
The "thaim an us" mentality is aiblins juist as much a hu
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ous effecks o the Bottom Line mentality (a.k.a. profit fer the few) t on page 29
time whan the Empire Loyalist mentality o sae monie supporters o the on page 130

2 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
t ding doon an ‘aye-been’ mentality or attitude, fur exemple. Syn
1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
are a clue to the Imperialist mentality of the UK elite. Ben Wallace' (2022) twitter link

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